We went into town today to pick up our tickets to Live 8 from the O2 shop, and while there we had a little look at the HMV sale. I picked up a DVD called Happy Tree Friends Volume 1: First Blood for only £3.99 Looking at Amazon I see that this came out in […]
Entries from June 23rd, 2005
The French
June 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off on The French · Music
I don’t think I shall ever understand the French – and not just because I didn’t pay enough attention when studying for O levels. I was watching a concert last night on the France 2 channel (courtesy of TV5 Europe on Sky Digital) – it is referred to in this blog. I think the concert […]
Tags: Concerts·Language·TV·World music
Meltdown Photos
June 21st, 2005 · Comments Off on Meltdown Photos · Music
Spizz has some photos he took on Friday night on his website here and here. This is a nice one of Rachid Taha and Mick Jones together backstage: And this one of MIck Jones on stage with Carbon/Silicon is too good to be true. If he really managed to take this on a little digital […]
Tags: Concerts·Photos·Spizzenergi·World music
Live 8 line-up
June 21st, 2005 · Comments Off on Live 8 line-up · Music
Every time I look at the list of who is playing at Live 8 in Hyde Park there seems to be another name added. As far as I am concerned this is not a good thing – every extra act could mean a couple of minutes off Pink Floyd’s allotted time! I spotted a new […]
Tags: Live 8·Pink Floyd
Humanist Weddings
June 20th, 2005 · Comments Off on Humanist Weddings · Life
According to this story in the Guardian today, it is now possible for people to get married in a humanist ceremony, and have it recognised by law. This means that it is no longer necessary to have a second wedding in the register office to make it legal. For most people this will not be […]
Canvassing
June 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Canvassing · Politics
“We only ever see you lot at election time!” Thats something that political activists are always hearing. In a way its true, because we are more active and more motivated as elections draw near, and we get a lot more help, but in another way its far from true: there are party members out most […]
Tags: Canvassing·Elections
Meltdown
June 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Meltdown · Music
I went out tonight after work, to see one of the shows in this year’s Meltdown festival at the Royal festival Hall which is conveniently located so close to where I work that I could see it clearly if a) Waterloo Station was not in the way b) We had any windows This year’s Meltdown […]
Tags: BYCC·Concerts·London·Spizzenergi·TV·World music
Car crash on the doorstep
June 15th, 2005 · Comments Off on Car crash on the doorstep · Life
It all kicked off here this afternoon while I was away at work. Apparently we had two fire engines, an ambulance, four marked police cars and the special unmarked pursuit car they have, but everyone knows its a police car because its an Evo 7 like in the film Fast & Furious and it gets […]
Tags: Broadfield·Cars·Crime/ASB·Doh!·Traffic
Live 8 tickets “won” in Broadfield Village!
June 15th, 2005 · Comments Off on Live 8 tickets “won” in Broadfield Village! · Work
I couldn’t believe it. I had sneaked down Lower Marsh to grab a sneaky cooked breakfast, when I got a text message from “LIVE8” saying I had won tickets to the concert on July 2nd. I was gutted when I only heard about Pink Floyd reforming after the text lines had closed, but it looks […]
Tags: Concerts·Live 8·Pink Floyd
Most Punk?
June 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on Most Punk? · Music
I was listening to a show on Radio One called the Lock Up, which had a countown of (supposedly) the ‘most punk’ songs of all time – as voted for by listeners to the show. Well, I can only assume that most of the listeners are a lot younger than those of us who remember […]
Tags: Punk·Radio·Spizzenergi
